Despite the increasing number of infections, the federal government sees Germany well prepared for the coming months with the planned new regulations for the corona requirements.
It is planned that beyond the beginning of spring on March 20, mask and test requirements in certain areas can continue to take effect as basic measures, as Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and Justice Minister Marco Buschmann (FDP) explained in Berlin on Wednesday.
More comprehensive measures should be able to take effect in particularly polluted hotspots. According to Lauterbach, this could be districts, cities, regions or an entire federal state.
“I still have hope that we can master the climb,” said Lauterbach. According to the Robert Koch Institute, the nationwide seven-day incidence rose for the seventh day in a row, to 1,319 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week. Buschmann expressed the expectation “that we will be able to control the situation well with this set of instruments”.
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Specifically planned:
► Countries can continue to make masks compulsory in clinics and nursing homes, for example, as well as in local public transport.
► Compulsory testing should also be able to be ordered in such facilities for particularly vulnerable groups and in schools.
► According to Buschmann, the following applies in regions with a normal corona situation: “There we are largely returning to normal life with the exception of the particularly dangerous settings.”
► In hotspots, further mask requirements, distance requirements, hygiene concepts and mandatory vaccination, convalescence or test certificates should be added.
Lauterbach said the regulations should apply until September 23, so that a successor law could be passed before the start of an expected autumn wave.